CONTEXT Breast cancer incidence is increasing rapidly in India. The lifestyle, built, genetic makeup, reproductive and breastfeeding patterns are quite different in Indian females when compared to the Western population. Generalizing the Western data to the population residing in the Himalayan region would breed inaccuracies. AIM The aim of our study was to identify risk factors in our own po...

We examined the influence of ecological (diet, swamp use, and rainfall) and social (intergroup interaction rate) factors on ranging behavior in one group of western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) during a 16-month study. Relative to mountain gorillas, western gorillas live in habitats with reduced herb densities, more readily available fruit (from seasonal and rare fruit trees), and, at som...

Using hourly rain gauge records and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission 3B42 from 1998 to 2006, the authors present an analysis of the diurnal characteristics of summer rainfall over subtropical East Asia. The study shows that there are four different regimes of distinct diurnal variation of rainfall in both the rain gauge and the satellite data. They are located over the Tibetan Plateau with l...

Herein, we investigated the characteristics and mechanisms of interannual variability extreme summer precipitation in northwest China (NWC). The four high-resolution predicting products under assessment indicated that both accumulation daily ≥95th percentile, maxima generally decreased a southeast—northwest direction, while relatively high values were observed Tienshan Qilian Mountain areas. In...

Acquisition of nearly complete coverage of Thematic Mapper data for the central Andes between about 15’s to 34’s has stimulated a comprehensive and unprecedented study of the interaction of tectonics and climate in a young and actively developing major continental mountain belt. The paper briefly reviews the current state of our synoptic mapping of key physiographic, tectonic and climatic indic...

due to its domestic problems, russia failed to pay significant attention to central asia and the caucasus after the collapse of the soviet :union:. this resulted in a geopolitical vacuum in the region followed by extensive activities done by regional actors including iran, turkey, pakistan and israel as well as world players such as nato. defining central asia and the caucasus as 'near abr...

East Asia is a very integral region, the Asian sub-kingdom of Holarctic, in which two large areas stand out: Sino-Himalayan and Sino-Japanese. The flora rich unique. About 25 000 species vascular plants grow this area. There are about 23 endemic families over 350 genera. number 15 000. In Asia, there modern centers diversity for many plants, but also relict groups that have survived territory f...